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CAESAR Competition

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The Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability, and Robustness (CAESAR) is a competition organized by a group of international cryptologic researchers to encourage the design of authenticated encryption schemes.[1] The competition was announced at the Early Symmetric Crypto workshop in January 2013 and the final portfolio in February 2019.

Use Cases

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The final CAESAR portfolio is organized into three use cases:[2]

  • 1: Lightweight applications (resource constrained environments)
  • 2: High-performance applications
  • 3: Defense in depth

Final Portfolio

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The final portfolio announced by the CAESAR committee is:[2]

Use Case 1 (Lightweight applications) Use Case 2 (High-performance applications) Use Case 3 (Defense in depth)
Ascon AEGIS-128 Deoxys-II
ACORN OCB COLM

CAESAR committee

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The committee in charge of the CAESAR Competition consisted of:[3]

  • Steve Babbage (Vodafone Group, UK)
  • Daniel J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands); secretary, non-voting
  • Alex Biryukov (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
  • Anne Canteaut (Inria Paris-Rocquencourt, France)
  • Carlos Cid (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
  • Joan Daemen (STMicroelectronics, Belgium)
  • Orr Dunkelman (University of Haifa, Israel)
  • Henri Gilbert (ANSSI, France)
  • Tetsu Iwata (Nagoya University, Japan)
  • Stefan Lucks (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany)
  • Willi Meier (FHNW, Switzerland)
  • Bart Preneel (COSIC, KU Leuven, Belgium)
  • Vincent Rijmen (KU Leuven, Belgium)
  • Matt Robshaw (Impinj, USA)
  • Phillip Rogaway (University of California at Davis, USA)
  • Greg Rose (kitchen4140, USA)
  • Serge Vaudenay (EPFL, Switzerland)
  • Hongjun Wu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

References

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  1. ^ "CAESAR: Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability, and Robustness".
  2. ^ a b "CAESAR submissions".
  3. ^ "CAESAR committee".
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